GWENDOLYN: Ernest, we may never be married. From the expression on
mamma's face, I fear we never shall. Few parents nowadays pay any regard to
what their children say to them. The old-fashioned respect for the young is fastdying out.

The tale of two gentlemen who adopt fictitious identities in order to woo the objects of their affections is Wilde’s most beloved work, considered to be one of the wittiest plays ever written in English.

The old believe everything: the middle-aged suspect everything: the young know
everything. —“Phrases and Philosophies for ... —The Picture ofDorian Gray, Ch.
8 a The old-fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out. —Gwendolen, The ...

... as they grow older they. judge them, sometimes they forgive them" and "Few
parents nowadays pay any respect to what their children say to them: the old-fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out," the dramatization being
completely ...

I'll say he died in Paris of apoplexy. Lots of people die of apoplexy, quite
suddenly, don't they? Algernon. Yes, but it's hereditary, my dear ... The old-fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out. Whatever influence I ever had
over mamma, ...

The old fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out. The historyof woman is
the history of ... All out under wrong. imitation in morals and in life is The world
has been made byfools that wise men may live init. Womenlove usfor our defects.

Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to therr The old-fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out. The history of woman is the
history of the worst form of tyranny the world ha ever known; the tyranny of the
weak ...

Instead of the young respecting their elders, Gwendolen laments, “Few parents
nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old-fashionedrespect for the young is fast dying out.” Jack's proposal itself is ludicrous.

Enter lord caversham, an old gentleman ofseventy, Rather like a portrait by
Lawrence 60 lord caversham Good evening, ... of youth recalls Gwendolen's
regret in Earnest that 'the old-fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out'(I,
703–4).